1965 Ryder Cup

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The 16th Ryder Cup Matches were held at the Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England. The United States team won the competition by a score of 19½ – 12½ points.

Contents 1 Teams 1.1 Team Great Britain 1.2 Team United States 2 Friday's matches 2.1 Morning Foursomes 2.2 Afternoon Foursomes 3 Saturday's matches 3.1 Morning Four-Ball 3.2 Afternoon Four-Ball 4 Sunday's matches 4.1 Morning singles 4.2 Afternoon singles 5 References

[edit] Teams

[edit] Team Great Britain

Captain: Harry Weetman

• Lionel Platts
• Dave Thomas
• Bernard Hunt
• Percy Alliss
• Peter Butler
• George Will
• Neil Coles
• Christy O'Connor
• Jimmy Martin
• Jimmy Hitchcock

[edit] Team United States

Captain: Byron Nelson

• Julius Boros
• Arnold Palmer
• Billy Casper
• Ken Venturi
• Tony Lema
• Dave Marr
• Gene Littler
• Don January
• Tommy Jacobs

[edit] Friday's matches

[edit] Morning Foursomes

	Results
Platts/Butler	1 hole	Boros/Lema
Thomas/Will	6 & 5	Palmer/Marr
Hunt/Coles	2 & 1	Casper/Littler
Alliss/O'Connor Snr	5 & 4	Venturi/January
2	Foursomes	2
2	Overall	2

[edit] Afternoon Foursomes

	Results
Thomas/Will	6 & 5	Palmer/Marr
Alliss/O'Connor Snr	2 & 1	Casper/Littler
Martin/Hitchcock	5 & 4	Boros/Lema
Hunt/Coles	3 & 2	Venturi/January
2	Foursomes	2
4	Overall	4

[edit] Saturday's matches

[edit] Morning Four-Ball

	Results
Thomas/Will	1 hole	January/Jacobs
Platts/Butler	halved	Casper/Littler
Alliss/O'Connor Snr	6 & 4	Palmer/Marr
Hunt/Coles	1 hole	Boros/Lema
1 ½	Four-Ball	2 ½
5 ½	Overall	6 ½

[edit] Afternoon Four-Ball

	Results
Alliss/O'Connor Snr	2 holes	Palmer/Marr
Thomas/Will	1 hole	January/Jacobs
Platts/Butler	halved	Casper/Littler
Hunt/Coles	1 hole	Venturi/Lema
1 ½	Four-Ball	2 ½
7	Overall	9

[edit] Sunday's matches

[edit] Morning singles

	Results
Jimmy Hitchcock	3 & 2	Arnold Palmer
Lionel Platts	4 & 2	Julius Boros
Peter Butler	1 hole	Tony Lema
Neil Coles	2 holes	Dave Marr
Bernard Hunt	2 holes	Gene Littler
Dave Thomas	2 & 1	Tommy Jacobs
Percy Alliss	1 hole	Billy Casper
George Will	halved	Don January
2 ½	Singles	5 ½
9 ½	Overall	14 ½

[edit] Afternoon singles

	Results
Christy O'Connor Snr	6 & 4	Tony Lema
Jimmy Hitchcock	2 & 1	Julius Boros
Peter Butler	2 holes	Arnold Palmer
Percy Alliss	3 & 1	Ken Venturi
Neil Coles	3 & 2	Billy Casper
George Will	2 & 1	Gene Littler
Bernard Hunt	1 hole	Dave Marr
Lionel Platts	1 hole	Tommy Jacobs
3	Singles	5
12 ½	Overall	19 ½

[edit] References

1963 Ryder Cup 23 9

1965 Ryder Cup 19½ 12½

1967 Ryder Cup 23½ 8½